Santenay is the most southerly village in the Côte de Beaune and produces both red and white wines. The red wines from Santenay are reputed to be tannic and well-structured. They say of Santenay that the wines have the soul of Volnay and the body of Pommard.

Vinification & Ageing

Fermentation

Traditional in open vat

Ageing

10 to 12 months ageing, partly in oak barrels and partly in small vats

Wine tasting

Tasting Note

The 2003 Santenay is very dark in colour. On the nose this young and fruity wine displays powerful ripe fruit and leather aromas which are echoed more intensely on the palate with hints of cherries. The tannins present in this wine are fairly soft and velvety adding to the ample and rounded character of this particular wine. Ready to drink now or over the next 4 years.

The Santenay 2014 has warming wood notes across the soft cherry and
raspberry fruit bouquet and develops floral notes as it breathes in the glass.
On the palate, the zippy entry from the crisp acidity subsides a touch to
reveal more complex characters and more fleshy fruit toward the finish. This is
an elegant Burgundy with equally elegant tannins from the structured pinot
noir.
(Neil Cammies, UK)

Santenay rouge 2014 - Sunday Times - "Packed with red fruit"

Packed with red fruit, supple and
easy to enjoy. (Will Lyons, UK)

Santenay rouge 2014 - Wine Spectator - November 2016 - 90/100

Rich cherry, smoke and earth flavors are offset by firm, dense tannins in this beefy red. Balanced and satisfying, with a lingering finish of earth and fruit. Drink now through 2021. By Bruce Sanderson (USA)

Santenay Rouge 2008 - The Guernsey Press & Star (UK) - September 2013 - "Vibrant, lively red"This vibrant, lively red is made from pinot noir grapes in the southern Burgundy area of France. It has a scented ripe, red fruit nose with delicious flavours of raspberry and red cherry on the palate with a fresh mineral acidity and silky soft tannins. Great with pork, duck and lighter game birds such as guinea owl, quail or pigeon (The wine List, Paul Bisson at Bucktrout's Quality Drinks).

Santenay Rouge 2007 - Chairman's selection (USA) - May 2011 - "Clean and silky palate"This 2007 Pinot Noir has hints of dusty earth, herbs and cherryish fruits. The palate is clean and silky with plum cherry, strawberry and mineral bands, which keep it tight to the vest and an absolute winner at the dinner table. Try with roasted chicken with rosemary.

Santenay 2006 - Wine Enthusiast- October 2009 - 87/100Pale in color, this wine goes for shades of flavor. The initial tannins merge into softer raspberry flavors that in turn become fresh red currants and final acidity. Ready to drink now.

Santenay Rouge 2006 - The Wine Guy - "Terrific Pinot Noir"This terrific Pinot Noir from the southern Côte d'Or proves that you can buy really good Burgundy wines without paying a king's ransom. Light, fruity and yet with some backbone this is a wine to age for a year or two while you let its bigger brothers age even longer.

Santenay Rouge 2003 - Times - November 2007 - "Tasty, faty, chocolatey"Way down south in the Côte de Beaune, Santenay is renowned for its chunky reds, and Louis Latour is one of the oldest and most well known of the Beaune négociants, more famous for its white wines than its lengthily oak-aged reds, which have a distinctive full-bodied style of their own. See for yourself with this tasty, fat, beefy, chocolatey, plummy red - a whiz with game casseroles and the like.

Santenay Blanc 2003 - The Wine Advocate - April 2005 - 88/100Spicy pears and toasty minerals make up tha aromatic profile of this white wine. This is a light to medium-bodied wine with good richness, breadth, and depth. Its sappy mineral flavours linger in the finish. Drink it over the next 2 - 3 years.

Santenay Rouge 2003 - La Revue du Vin de France - February 2006 - "Luscious and well developed"Quite dense robe. Bouquet of black flesh fruits, luscious and well developed, but without heaviness. Dense palate, with corpulence. Balance is present with substance and natural freshness. A very natural 2003. Wait two to five years.

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